Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …

premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation …, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …

derive a general analytic formula for the "risk premium" governing the resulting climate policy. The formula generalizes … simple precautionary savings analysis to more complex economic interactions and it builds the economic intuition for policy … making under uncertainty. It clarifies the distinct roles of risk aversion, prudence, characteristics of the damage …

of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests …We consider a simple, two period, consumption-savings model with future income uncertainty that examines the interplay … present bias. We predict, and show empirically, that loss aversion reduces savings, and that those who are more loss averse …

We study optimal savings in continuous time with exogenous transitions between employment and unemployment as the only …

In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called dead-anyway effect discovered … risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their reasoning is based on differences in the marginal utility of wealth …: first, for a risk-averse individual without a bequest motive, marginal WTP for survival does increase with the level of risk …

We show how optimal saving in a two-period model is affected when prudence and risk aversion of the underlying utility … function change. Increasing prudence alone will induce higher savings only if, for certain combinations of the interest rate … and the pure time discount rate, there is distributional neutrality between the two periods. Otherwise, changes of risk …

degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

first-order approximated solution built by perturbation methods accounts for risk. We show that risk matters economically in … a real business cycle (RBC) model with habit formation and capital adjustment costs and that neglecting risk leads to …